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I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me. That was the be aware handed to a stewardess by the mild-mannered passenger over a Northwest Orient journey in 1971. It was the beginning of one of the most amazing whodunits in the annals of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an air travel, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D. B. Cooper's case has become the stuff of star and obsessed and cursed his pursuers with everything from individual bankruptcy to suicidal despair. Now with Skyjack, journalist Geoffrey Grey delves into this unsolved unknown uncovering new leads in the infamous case. You start with a idea from a private investigator into a promising suspect (a Cooper lookalike, Northwest employee, and trained paratrooper), Grey is propelled into the murky depths of your decades-old mystery, performing new interviews and finding a first-ever check out Cooper's FBI data file. Beginning with a heartstopping and unprecedented recreation of the crime itself, from cabin to cockpit to tower, and uncanny portraits of personas who either chased Cooper or may have committed the crime, including Ralph Himmelsbach, the most dogged of FBI realtors, who watched with horror as a felony became a counter-culture folk hero who supposedly shafted the system. With explosive new information and exclusive usage of FBI files and forensic proof, Skyjack reopens one of the great cold instances of the 20th century.
